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AMD support offers new version 16.6.1 hotfix Crimson Edition reference drivers for AMD graphics cards. These add support for Mirror's Edge Catalyst and Paragon, and also include a new AMD Crossfire...

A Paragon Essentials Edition is now available in stores, a special edition of Paragon, Epic Games' first-person MOBA. There are a couple of unusual aspects to this release of the game on physical...

A Battlefield tweet offers 15 seconds of gameplay footage from Battlefield 1, offering a sneak peek at the upcoming installment that will take the military shooter series back to World War I. This is...

Mirrors Edge Catalyst Is Now Available For Xbox One. Ford GT GTE racer available as free download in Forza Motorsport 6. This Weeks Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale.

League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 06.07 - 06.10. SMITE Skin Sale- June 6th 9th. STRIDER - ストライダー飛竜 on Steam. Save 70%. Warhammer 40,0...

Heroes of the West D-Day 2016 Update. The official community-made mod for Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm. Here's a new trailer. The Lab: Appliance of Science Update.

Ubisoft and Blue Byte are offering the Big Five Pack, a new DLC pack that's free to all owners of the strategy sequel. Here's word on the free pack as well as the next bit of premium DLC that will...

Steam News announces the release of the Arizona DLC pack, free to all owners of American Truck Simulator for Windows, Linux, and OS X. This trailer shows off the DLC, and word is: "Discover 15 new...

Ubisoft is running a Watch Dogs 2 countdown to track the seconds between now and noon EDT on Wednesday, which is when they plan on a world premiere of Watch Dogs 2. This will presumably be a trailer...

Jay Wilson tweets of his departure from Blizzard Entertainment, saying: "I'm leaving to pursue my original passion, writing. It's what I was doing when I fell into this job, and I've always wanted to...

EA announces FIFA 17, saying the next installment in the association football/soccer series will be powered by the Frostbite engine, and will launch in North America on September 27 and everywhere...

Kotaku points to a post on ThisGenGaming with an image of a poster, suggesting a new installment in the zombie series will be announced soon (presumably surrounding the imminent E3 2016). The poster...

RPG Codex Interview- Chris Avellone at Digital Dragons 2016. Thanks Acleacius. Matt Chat 343- Copper Dreams with Joe and Hannah. Thanks Ant.

Why eSports Tournaments Make Great Venues for Research. EGX partners with Amazon for 2016 show.

The Atari ST and the creative people- Volume 1 by Marco A. Breddin Kickstarter. Campaign for proposed book not looking great in its final hours.

Overwatch falls to number two on the GFK Chart-Track PC Top 30 Chart of the bestselling PC games in the U.K. for last week, as the region's obsession with The Sims 4 continues unabated. Total War:...

Headup Games and PineStudio announce the release of a playable demo for EUM: Speedrunners From Hell for Windows, OS X, and Linux, offering the chance to appreciate what they mean when they call this "...

Without specifically invoking D-Day, Paradox Interactive announces the release of Hearts of Iron IV, the newest installment in the World War II strategy series. You can order the game and find more...

Deep Silver announces Agents of Mayhem, an open-world action game from Volition coming to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 next year, confirming rumors that began circulating latst month. They say...

Twin Galaxies tweets about this post floating the possibility of Kickstarting a revival of Blood, the Build-engine first-person shooter released by Monolith in 1997 (thanks Janic). Monolith Founder...

More Social, More Games, More Devices Whats In The Xbox Update Coming This Summer. Elite Dangerous: Horizons Released on Xbox One. Row over "stolen" Fallout 4 mods.

Nests time at Alphabet: A virtually unlimited budget with no results. How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebooks War to Crush Google Plus. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. How Social Media Brainwashes...

Working Game Boy Built Out Of Burger King Toy.

Computer scientists quantify just how hard Super Mario Bros. is. All the good science was taken. PlayStation Blogcast 211: Overwatch and Out.

This Month in WoW June 2016.

Soulless - A Game About Hope - Indiegogo. "Soulless is an atmospheric 2D puzzle platformer set in a world of silhouettes." Also on Steam Greenlight. Here's a gameplay trailer.

Here's Valve's report of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week: Total War: WARHAMMER DOOM Youtubers Life The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Counter-Strike: Global Offensive METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE...

The Unknown Worlds website now offers a new update for Natural Selection 2, updating the action/strategy game to version 301. In addition to fixes and changes, the new version comes with a new map...

A post on Battle.net discusses plans to increase the draw distance in World of Warcraft in the upcoming Legion expansion for the MMORPG, adding the ability to see more distant objects, and adding...

A tweet from last night has the news that Allison Road is cancelled, saying: "Hi all. Sadly Allison Road had to be cancelled. Statement to come in the next few days. Thx for all your support and very...

The Climb on Christ Centered Gamer. Hard Reset Redux on GBase.ch. German. Hitman Episode 3: Marrakesh on PC Invasion. Soul Axiom on Just Adventure. Total War: Warhammer on PC Invasion.

Extortion schemes expand, threatening consumers and businesses with data leaks. Thanks Ant. Second-in-command at Silk Road 2.0 sentenced to 8 years in prison. FBI- Exploit that revealed Tor-enabled...

7 ways to prevent mobile break-in. Thanks Ant. Facebook is using smartphones to listen to what people say, professor suggests. Thanks Acleacius.

Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence. The Age of Ultron. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 On Linux- OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan Performance - Phoronix. GIGABYTE Hosts...

The International 2016 Collectors Cache - Dota 2. Street Fighter Player Banned From Pro Tour, Evo for Sexual Harrassment. League of Legends Esports team icons return.

A new patch should now or soon be live in Path of Exile, updating Grinding Gears' action/RPG to version 2.3.0, as they sent a note saying the patch would be out yesterday, while the website...

Zombicide for Tabletop Simulator is now available on Steam, offering a collaborative zombie experience for the virtual board game for Windows, OS X and Linux. This requires Tabletop Simulator, but...

Aaron Linde tweets about his departure from Gearbox, where he served as writer on Battleborn, Gearbox's new multiplayer shooter. He says: "Got some news, fellas! Tomorrow's my last day at Gearbox....

Watch the Hearthstone Spring Championships. GTA Online: Criminal Expansion Weekend (June 3rd - 6th).

A Look Back on The Crew's Road to 5 Million Players - UbiBlog.

Dota 2 Update - June 3rd 2016. Left 4 Dead 2 update. The Repopulation 16.6.1 Build is Now Live.

The Bridge on IndieGameStand. Pay what you want. SKYHILL on Steam. Save 40%. SMITE Skin Sale- June 3rd 5th. TopWare & Anuman Combo on GOG.com. Save 80%.

The Star Wars: The Old Republic website announces the release of Mandalores Revenge, the latest content update for the Star Wars MMORPG. This adds new gameplay experiences as well as new content, as...

Trion Worlds is conducting another free weekend for Atlas Reactor, their upcoming multiplayer, simultaneous, turn-based tactics game. Since this involves joining the ongoing closed beta, they offer...

The Battleborn Battleplan #4 has details on the release of Alani, the game's new character, along with a bunch of other changes for Gearbox's multiplayer first-person shooter. Here's word: Our 26th...

UbiBlog announces the limited-time release of a new Rainbow Six Siege Starter Edition, offering a way to get started with the tactical shooter sequel for a mere $15.00 USD. This actually includes...

Rock Band 4 Dev Teases New Peripheral, Announces Deal With Fender Through 2027. Harmonix And Mad Catz Dispute Rock Band 4 Hardware Demand. APB Reloaded Is Now Available For Xbox One. The Witness is...

Thanks Ant. Windows 10 nagware- You can't click X. Make a date OR ELSE. WTF? Thanks nin. Again, I recommend looking into GRC's Never10. OpenGL Performance & Perf-Per-Watt From The Radeon HD 3850...

Adblock Plus and (a little) more- Adblock Plus 1.12 for Chrome, Opera and Safari released. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.

NBA 2K17 Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One. Dex Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One. Anima: Gate of Memories Is Now Available For...